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D. L. ADELSPERGER.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING comm SEED.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30. l9l9,

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

-I illIlI Hun @TATE ATENT @Fldll DOW/V L. ADELSPERGER, F SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE BAUER BROTHERS COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING COTTON-SEED.

1,326,888 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 30, 1919 Application filed January 30, 1919. Serial No. 273,990. To all whom it may concern: In the accompanying drawings Be 1t known that 1, Dow L. Aonnsrnuonn, l lgure 1 1s a longitudinal sectional view a cltizen of the United States, residing at of a dev1ce embodying my improvements. Springfield, 1n the county of Clark and Fig. 2 1s a vertical section through the State of Ohio, have invented certain new screen cylinder and the beater arm shaft, 60

and useful Improvements in Apparatus for showing some of the beater arms.

Treating Cotton-Seed, of which the follow- Fig. 3 is a detail. of the outer end of one ing is a specification. of the beater arms.

My invention relates to separators and Fig. 4- is a section on the line it-41 of more particularly to that class of devices Fig. 0. 55 known beaters employed in the treat- In the said drawings, 1 represents the ment of cotton seed after the same has been screen of the cylinder, 2 end rings, 3 intercut, to separate the meats from the hulls mediate rings and 3 longitudinal strips and lint. which support the same, the end rings be- The object of my invention is to provide ing mounted upon ball bearings carried by 70 improved means for beating and for keepthe stationary supports, 4-, in a manner coming the screen of the beater free from clogmon 111 machines of this character, such, for ging with particles of hulls and lint. instance, as shown in Patent No. 1,183,110,

In devices of this character, to obtain dated May 16th, 1916. As is also usual in 20 the most efficient service, it is essential that these machines, there provided a longitu- 76 all the material shall be acted upon all the dinally extending shaft 5 which carries a time and to that end the means for agitatplurality of beater arms (5, but a few of ing the material must cover the entire area these beater arms in the present case being within the machine; that is to say, the shown, it being the practice to provide a beater means must extend from the central great number of the arms arranged in comso driving shaft to contact with the screen; paratively close relation with each other. but owing to inaccuracies of workmanship, The shaft 5 is revolved in one direction by wearing of the shaft journals or the deflecpower applied to the pulley 7 and in the tion of the shaft the relation of the boaters present machine the screen cylinder is re- 80 to the screen vary and to avoid damaging volved in the opposite direction by power 8 the screen I have devised beater means that applied to the worm wheel 8 through the under the centrifugal force of the driving medium of the power driven worm 9. shaft will keep in constant contact with the As has heretofore been explained, it frescreen and yet will yield to meet the varyqucntly happens that as a result of wear or ing distance of the beater means in its relaother causes that the shaft 5 will become 90 tion to the screen. For the purpose of in eccentric relation with the screen cylinkeeping the screen clean it has been comder, as a result of which the beater arms, mon to provide brushes acting upon the during one portion of their revolution, outer surface of the screen. These brushes would come in contact with and injure the soon become clogged and lose their efliscreen, while in other portions of their rev- 9 ciency. Furthermore such constructions inolution they would be removed from the terfere with the structural frame and to screen to such an extent as to interfere with build the frame within the screen prevents their proper action upon the material. To the beating means from covering the entire overcome the diiliculties resulting from this area within the screen. is the essence of my invention and the My invention, as will more fully appear, means which I employ will now be deby simple and efficient means, not only covscribed. ers the entire area within the machine but Referring more particularly to Figs. 3 also acts to keep the screen clean. The and l, the outer end of each beater arm,

50 screening member is shown in the form of which is preferably flattened as indicated a cylinder; but the improvement may be at 6, is provided with an elongated openemployed with screens of less than a full mg or slot 10 through which is threaded a. cle. ring 11. In Fig. 2 the shaft is shown as Furthermore the screen may be rotary or eccentrically arranged with respect to the 55 not. screen so as to illustrate the result of the construction when such eccentricity occurs from the reasons before stated. As the shaft and heater arms revolve, the rings will swing or fly out by centrifugal force in contact with the screen so that they will be maintained at all times in contact therewith. At the same time the slotted openings 10 allow the rings to recede or move in the direction of the aXis of the shaft to prevent injury to the screen in the event that the shaft should be rotated in a reverse direction, as sometimes happens, or to compensate for any other abnormal relation of the beater arms to the interior of the screen. i

While in the present case the screen has been shown as applied to a rotary cylinder, the improvements are equally applicable to a stationary screen formed in half cylindrical shape.

'Having thus described my invention, I claim v 1. In a heater, the combination, with a screening member, of a rotary shaft hav-' 1 ,32e,sse

ing a plurality of radially extending beater arms fixed thereon, each arm having an opening extending transversely to the movement of the arm, and a ring threaded through said opening to freely swing by centrifugal force and sweep the surface of said screen.

I 2. In 7 a beater, screening member, of a rotary shaft having a plurality of radially extending beater arms fixed thereon, each arm having an opening extending transversely to the movement of the arm, and a ring threaded through said opening to freely swing by centrifugal force to sweep the surface of said screen, said'opening being of sufficient length to admit of the ringmoving longitudinally on the arm to and from said screen.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this th day of January, 1919. DOW L. ADELSPERGER.

Witness:

CHAS. I. Wanna.

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